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August 09, 2007
• Trapped Miners; Pakistan Problems
• Cindy Sheehan Targets Democrats; Trying to Reach Miners
• Drill Could Reach Trapped Miners' Cavity Any Minutes, Gays & The '08 Race, New 'Made in China' Recall


August 08, 2007
• Rescue Efforts to Save Trapped Miners Continue; Government Cracks Down on Illegal Immigrant Workers
• Rescue Crews Get Closer to Trapped Miners; Powell Contributes Money to John McCain's Campaign
• Trapped Utah Miners; Spanish TV Debate; Endeavor Lifts Off


August 07, 2007
• Mine Official: A Week to Reach Trapped Miners
• Struggle to Reach Trapped Miners Continues; Do Union Votes Still Matter?
• Miners Still Trapped; New Bridge Collapse Video; Hillary Clinton Rising in Polls; Mia Farrow Offers Trade for Sudanese Dissident; Missing Cuban Boxers Back Home; FBI's New Pot-Smoking Policy; Father of Ohio Murder Victim Goes After Killer in Court


August 06, 2007
• Rescuers Attempt to Reach Trapped Coal Miners; Is Rudy Giuliani's Daughter Backing Democratic Presidential Candidate?
• Rescuers Work to Reach Trapped Miners
• Six Miners Trapped by Cave-in; Edwards Takes Aim at Bill Clinton


August 03, 2007
• THE SITUATION ROOM For August 3, 2007, CNN
• Young Mother Who Swam To Safety, Grateful For Every Moment; One Good Samaritan Is Haunted By The Images Of Those He Didn't Help; Grim Work For Divers As They Check Submerged Vehicles For Victims
• 'Treacherous' Recovery Effort; Good Samaritan Haunted by Images; Fears About Bridges


August 02, 2007
• More Details on Minnesota Bridge Collapse
• More on Minnesota Bridge Collapse
• Search for Bodies, Clues After Minnesota Bridge Collapses; Kids on Trip Survive Plunge


August 01, 2007
• Did Rice Come Away Empty-Handed From Saudi Arabia?; Who's in Charge in Cuba?
• Rumsfeld Testifies on Capitol Hill; Russia Takes Lead in Race for North Pole
• War on Terror: Conflicts Could Top $1 Trillion; Rumsfeld Testifies in Tillman Case; Back From Iraq: Congressman Keith Ellison Talks About Trip


July 31, 2007
• Is U.S. Selling Weapons to Wrong People?; Will Chelsea Clinton Join Hillary's Presidential Campaign?
• Chairman of Joint Chiefs: More Troops in Iraq Won't Make a Difference; Is 'Vanity Fair' Unfair?
• Senator Under Investigation; All-Clear for Chief Justice Roberts; Cheney Takes on Clinton


July 30, 2007
• Chief Justice Rushed to Hospital; FBI, IRS Search Alaska Senator's Home
• Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia; Can U.S. Win in Iraq?
• Chief Justice John Roberts Rushed to Hospital After Fall; Arlen Specter Probes Anti-Terror Programs; John Edwards: Alberto Gonzales Must Go


July 27, 2007
• Wrong Iraq Strategy; India Nuclear Fuel Deal; News Helicopter Crash
• The Latest on Alleged Saudi Involvement in Iraq. The 66-year- old Woman Who Set off a Bogus Terror Alert
• Tightening Homeland Security; Gonzales Perjury Probe; Cheney to Undergo Surgery


July 26, 2007
• Slave Labor in Iraq; Perjury Probe of Gonzales? Stocks Plummet
• Tony Snow Interview; Stocks Falling; Castro No Longer in Charge?
• Perjury Probe of Gonzales; Subpoena for Rove; 'Bush-Cheney Lite' Charge; Obama and Clinton Advisors Butt Heads; Death of Pat Tillman


July 25, 2007
• House Democrats Set Stage for Constitutional Showdown; New Warnings About Airline Security
• Suspicious Objects Found in U.S. Airports; How Should U.S. Presidents Deal With Dictators?
• Clinton and Obama Campaigns Trade Fire; Interview With Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole and Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala


July 24, 2007
• Bush Mentions al Qaeda Nearly 100 Times in One Speech: Will All the Repetition Boost U.S. Support For War or is Too Much? United States Spending $592 Million to Build an Embassy in Baghdad. U.S. States Have Figured out a way to hit Iran Where it Hurts, its Pocketbook. Has The Iraq War been for Nothing?
• Reality Check From Baghdad; Cheney's Secrets
• President Bush Links Iraq, al Qaeda; Polls: Public Wants Change Now; Wanted Dems Seek GOP Rebels


July 23, 2007
• Candidates Prepare for CNN/YouTube Democratic Presidential Debate; Wounded Veterans Say They Are Denied Treatment, Disability Pay
• CNN/YouTube Debate: Chance to Make History; Senator Russ Feingold Scolds President Bush


July 20, 2007
• Bush Signs Executive Order Banning Torture; New Potter Book Released
• Surge Needs More Time to Work; Airline Carry-on Rules Change Again
• No-Torture Rules: President Bush Issues New Order; Pentagon vs. Hillary Clinton; America Votes 2008: South Carolina Up for Grabs


July 19, 2007
• Fear in Iraq. Bill Clinton Stands by His Wife Against Jabs From Elizabeth Edwards. Is the NYC Steam Blast Area a Toxic Danger Zone? Obama saying that Age-Appropriate Sex Education is OK For Kindergarten Children. Some Christians Want More say in the Government. Chinese Authorities Jailed an Investigative Reporter. Castro and the Bush Administration Pointing Fingers at Each Other.
• Tale of Two Iraqs; Did Explosion Release Asbestos Into New York City Air?
• Iraq: Moving "Goal Posts"; President Bush on the Road; Interview With Congressman Christopher Shays


July 18, 2007
• Explosion in Midtown Manhattan
• Starr reports live from Ramadi, Iraq on General Peter Pace's visit to the region. Whitbeck and O'Brien report on the crash in Sao Paolo, Brazil and the difficulties for large, modern planes landing on short runways built long ago
• Deadlock After All-Nighter: No Senate Progress on Iraq; Chasing Osama bin Laden; NYC Security Cash Crunch


July 17, 2007
• Airplane Crashes in Brazil. Iraq May be a Launch Pad For al Qaeda to Harm the U.S. Democrats Staging an All-Nighter Anti-War Marathon. Military in Iraq Waiting for Bomb-Proof Vehicles, Which Are Late. Are U.S. Nuclear Plants Able to Withstand an Earthquake? John Edward's Wife Dings Hillary Clinton
• U.S. Intelligence Warns Iraq Might Become Terrorist Staging Ground; Earthquake Triggers Nuclear Fears
• Al Qaeda Threat in U.S.; Dems Stage Anti-War Marathon; Interview With Senator Chris Dodd


July 16, 2007
• Senator Vitter Holds Press Conference; Americans Held in Iran
• Iran's Role in Iraq; Will Georgia Execute an Innocent Man?
• Dems Stage All-Nighter Anti-War Spectacle; Interview With Governor Bill Richardson


July 13, 2007
• More GOP Senators Oppose Bush on Iraq; Pakistan's Islamist Revolt
• Islamist Revolt in Pakistan; Firefight in Baghdad
• McCain Takes Blame for Campaign Woes; Republican Rebellion on Iraq; House Dems Target President Bush's Ex-Lawyer


July 12, 2007
• An Intelligence Report is Saying al Qaeda is Boosting Efforts to Infiltrate the United States. Congressional Operatives went Under Cover to buy Radioactive Ingredients for a Dirty Bomb. The White House Hands Out some Mixed Grades on the Iraqi Report Card. An Undercover Investigation in a Beijing Neighborhood Reveals yet Another Problem with Chinese Products
• Fact Check on the Bush Administration's Iraq Report Card. Progress in Iraq.
• Mixed Iraq Progress Report; Interview With Senator Jon Kyl; McCain's Money Troubles


July 11, 2007
• Al Qaeda Making a Shocking Comeback. A Key Interim Report Measuring the Progress in Iraq is Due Out Soon. Giuliani Under Fire From the Firefighters Union. Larry Flynt On a Mission As He Exposes Senator David Vitter's Phone Call to a Washington, D.C. Madam. A U.S. Attorney is Saying Brian Wells is a Co-conspirator in the Planning of a Bank Robbery.
• The "Gut Feeling" Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Has. Chernoff Reports on New Charges in the Human Time Bomb Bank Robbery
• Dodging Questions: Unclear Answers to Issues on Iraq; Major Test on Iraq Fails; Revisiting Iraq Study Group Report


July 10, 2007
• Does the Pentagon Have a Plan B in Mind? George McGovern says He's Not Sure if an Anti-War Democrat Can Win in 2008. Senator Vitter's Telephone Number was Found in Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Little Black Book. Prince William County, Virginia is Trying to Get a Law Passed to Crack Down on Illegal Immigrants. China Approves the Death Sentence Against it's Food Chief, Accused of Taking Bribes and Dereliction of Duty. Interview with Filmmaker Michael Moore
• Taking Sides on Iraq; Calls for New Iraq Course; U.S. Troop Deployments
• Alternate War Strategies Considered by the Bush Administration. Can the Iraqi Government Meet Bush's Benchmarks?


July 09, 2007
• Pentagon Lowering the Bar for Measuring Success in Iraq. Some Congressmen Want to Stop Funding Guantanamo Bay. NAACP Held a Mock Funeral for the Burial of the "N" Word. The National Hurricane Center Director has Been Replaced. Panama's Noriega is Due to be Released From U.S. Prison. CNN's Dr. Gupta looks at "Sicko" and Some Facts Are Incorrect.
• The Administration is Lowering the Bar on Expectations in the Iraq War. Latest Developments on the Controversy Over the Director of the National Hurricane Center
• Latest Collision Between Congressional Democrats and President Bush on the war in Iraq and Republicans Breaking With the President. White House vows to Invoke Executive Privilege in the Scandal Surrounding the Firing of Eight Federal Prosecutors


July 06, 2007
• A Top U.S. Commander Makes an Urgent Plea and Issues a Dire Warning. Iraqi Doctor Charged in the U.K. Terror Probe. Possible Assassination Attempt Against Pakistani President Musharraf. Rebellion at the National Hurricane Center. Why is Bernard Kerik Keeping his Distance from Giuliani? Malaria is the Number One Killer for Some African Nations, not AIDs.
• U.S. Commanders on the Ground Warn Against Withdrawing U.S. Troops from Iraq. Updates on the Latest Fighting in Iraq
• Koch examines the significance of a federal appeals court decision to dismiss a legal challenge to the Bush administration's wiretapping program. Schneider explains why Republican senators are breaking with the president of his Iraq strategy


July 05, 2007
• Passport Wait Leaves Travellers Stuck; Pakistani Standoff Continues
• Domenici Breaking with Bush on the War in Iraq. State Department's Massive Backlog on Passports is Jeopardizing Travel Plans for Thousands. A New Terror File is Raising New Concerns about Possible Plots. Palestinian Sources Saying at Least Eight Hamas Militants Killed Today. Interview with Fawaz Gerges. Telemundo Mirthala Salinas, Who Was Involved with the L.A. Mayor, On A Leave of Absence, Pending a Review. Marines Under Investigation for Possible Civilian Deaths in 2004
• Domenici's Break with Bush's Iraq Strategy. White House Reaction to Clinton's Remarks About the "Scooter" Libby Sentence Commutation.


July 04, 2007
• National Mall Evacuated; Pakistanis Battle Islamists; Al Gore III Arrested for Drug Possession
• Security Measures Mark Holiday
• Campaigns Collide; Poll Results


July 03, 2007
• New Claims of al Qaeda-U.K. Bombings Link; Clintons Campaign in Iowa
• City Security Increases. The Significance of Doctor Terror Suspects.
• Henry describes the controversy over President Bush's decision to commute Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence. Newton reports the latest developments on the investigation into the terror attacks in Great Britain and Scotland


July 02, 2007
• Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence
• Putin Visits Bush Compound in Kennebunkport; Hezbollah in Iraq
• The Impact of McCain and Obama's Second Quarter Fundraising Numbers. The Meeting Between Bush and Putin.


June 29, 2007
• London on Alert After Close Calls with Car Bombs. Bush Monitoring the Activity in London While on Vacation in Maine. Presidential Candidates Mad Dash for Cash. Interview with Elizabeth Edwards.
• Thwarted Terror Attack in London: The United States's Reaction. the Pentagon Warns the Troops in Iraq Need Better Equipment to Deal with IEDs
• Full coverage of the thwarted terror attack in Central London. Koppel reports on the latest efforts by the Democrats to change course on the war in Iraq


June 28, 2007
• Supreme Court says Public Schools Can't Use Race in Assigning Children. Senate 14 Votes Short of the 60 Needed to Cut Off Debate on Immigration Bill. Democratic Candidates Having a debate at Howard University Tonight. Is Bill Clinton's Campaign Role Helping or Hurting Hillary?
• Immigration Bill Killed; Supreme Court Rules on Role of Race in School Assignments
• Koppel describes President Bush's defeat on immigration reform; Henry examines the meaning of the defeat.


June 27, 2007
• Senate Democrats Hit Bush Administration With New Subpoenas; Threat to Airline Safety
• U.S. Military Wages The PR War By Releasing Battle Video Of Heavy Fighting In Iraq
• Power Outage in the NYC Subway System. Subpoenas Issued by Congress in Connection with the Bush Administration's Secret Wiretap Program. Reaction to the Subpoenas at the White House


June 26, 2007
• Republican Senator Breaks Ranks Over Iraq War; CIA Releases Formerly Classified Documents
• Republican Senator Parts Ways With President Bush on Iraq; New Documents Show Darker Side of CIA
• Schneider examines the latest poll numbers that show dramatically lower support for the war in Iraq. Quijano reports the latest on the attempt to pass the immigration reform bill.


June 25, 2007
• Supreme Court's New Rulings; Cheney Claims He's Not Part of Executive Branch
• Devastating Attack in Baghdad; Islamic Militants in Gaza Take Hostages


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